Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases: 20th Annual Scientific Update for Clinicians & Researchers
The Lyme Disease Association, Inc. with joint provider Columbia University, is holding its annual scientific CME conference, Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases: 20th Annual Scientific Update for Clinicians & Researchers. Brian Fallon, MD, Columbia University is Conference Director. It will be held at the Hilton Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday and Sunday, September 21 & 22. The conference is designed for physicians and researchers but the public is invited to register. AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM will be offered by Columbia University to CME-registered physician attendees. The conference features faculty consisting of clinicians and researchers from across the US. Below are the speakers who have confirmed to date.
Patricia V. Smith, BA
Pres, Lyme Disease Assoc., Inc.
Advisory Bd., Columbia Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center
Programmatic Panel, TBD, DoD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
Conference Planning Com./Organizer
Jackson, NJ
Welcome/Overview of Lyme/Introductions
Robert H. Yolken, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Stanley Neurovirology Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
The blood-immune gut axis: a big new idea in psychiatric disorders
Eric Storch, PhD
Professor and McIngvale
Presidential Endowed Chair
Vice Chair & Head, Psychology
Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas
OCD
Daniel E. Sonenshine, PhD
Professor (Emeritus)
Department of Biological Sciences
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia
Mark J. Soloski, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Co-Director for Basic Research, Lyme Disease Research Center
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
The host immune response in Lyme borreliosis
Sangram S. Sisodia, PhD
Thomas Reynolds Sr. Family Professor of Neurosciences
Director, Center for Molecular Neurobiology
Departments of Neurobiology and Neurology
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Il
Role of the microbiome in modulation of Aβ amyloidosis and neuroinflammation in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease
Peter Novak, MD, PhD
Division Chief, Autonomic Neurology
Director, Autonomic Laboratory
Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Neurological correlates of Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology, and Genetics
University of California
San Diego School of Medicine
San Diego, CA
Are post-post treatment Lyme disease syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome the same disease with different triggers? –New evidence from metabolomics and prospects for new treatments
Elizabeth L. Maloney, MD
President, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education
Family Practice Physician
Wyoming, MN
Conference Facilitator and Conference Planning Committee
Margaret R. MacDonald, MD, PhD
Research Associate ProfessorLaboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY
Powassan virus: an emerging tick-borne threat